Bramley's Seedling is a large, flat, firm apple with greenish-yellow skin.  It is great for baking and cooking as well as being a good cider apple, with firm, juicy, sharly acidic flesh.  It is high in Vitamin C.  It is scab and mil

Turley Winesap is similar to Stayman Winesap, but ripens about a week earlier.  It does not crack like ordinary Stayman.  The fruit is large, firm, white fleshed, crisp and juicy.  It is a multi-purpose apple, but does not have as "

Idagold is a medium to large sized, oblong apple with a clear yellow skin and faint reddish blush.  The flesh is rich, cream colored, somewhat course, but firm, juicy, sweet and aromatic.  Idagold ripens just ahead of Rome.  It has

Northern Lights produces large, attractive, glossy, bright red blushed apples.  It has a flavor similar to McIntosh and with semi-firm, tasty white flesh..  It is very cold hardy and best suited to back yard orchards in cold climates.

Roxbury Russet is a grand old all purpose apple that makes excellent cider also.  The fruit is large, greenish and covered with a light bronzy russet.  The flesh is firm, tender and yellow-white.  It is very sugary and well known fo

Domaine is an excellent hard cidre variety that will impart a bitter flavor to the cidre blend.  The tree is a vigorous and strong limbed grower.  It ripens in early October.   It is susceptible to scab and fire blight.

Novamac is very similar to McIntosh in season and flavor.  The fruit is medium-large, round, mostly red over a greenish-yellow background color.  The flesh is white, crisp, tender and juicy with a fine sub-acid flavor similar to a Mac.&n

Kinsei is a Japanese selection that resembles Golden Delicious, but with more russet and a sweeter flavor.  The apples are slightly aromatic and low acid with firm creamy, white flesh.  It is reported to store quite well.  We are no

Nova EasyGro resembles Cortland in looks and ripening period.  The fruit is only medium sized, round, with a stripy blush over a pale greenish yellow background.  The flesh is creamy white, smooth, firm, crisp, moderately juicy with a su

Brown's Apple was a favorite English cider apple that produces a clean crisp, bitter-sharp, tangy, fruity cider.  The apple is dark red and the flesh often has red stains.  It ripens in October, but can be biennial.  Scab tolerant a

Blondee® Apple is a very new "golden Gala" type apple that Grandpa saw a few years ago and was impressed with.  The fruit ripens a few days before regular Gala but has a greenish-yellow skin that changes to a rich yellow as it ripens.&nbs

Wagener is a medium to large size, distinctly knobby, irregular five sided flat fruit.  It has thin, glassy smooth skin which is light yellow with pale red striping and mottling.  The flesh is tender, crisp, firm, fine grained and has a

Grandpa's Double Red Idared is a selected strain of regular Idared that shows improved red color all around.  Similar in all other respects.

Hyslop Crab apple is an edible crab that can also be planted as an ornamental.  The tree is vigorous and very hardy with a bluish bloom.  It produces one inch fruit that are deep crimson red.  The fruit is juicy upon

Until Grandpa can get all the new cidre varieties listed individually, with detailed descriptions, you will be able to find what Grandpa's Orchard may have available in varieties and rootstock combinations as separate listin

Grandpa's Early Golden Delicious is a strain of regular Golden Delicious that ripens a couple weeks ahead of normal.   Grandpa's strain is more russet resistant than the original Golden Delicious, but has all the same qualities--- large,

Spijon resembles Jonathan in flavor and quality, but ripens later in the season with Northern Spy.  It is a large, dark red, blushed apple with firm, light yellow flesh.  The fruit is subacid, slightly tart, but with very good eating and

Esopus Spitzenburg is a connoisseurs delight with medium to large, round, orangish red fruits.  The skin is tough and has russety dots and hard to see stripes.  The flesh is juicy, crisp, fine grained and yellow with a spicy, aromatic fl

Smokehouse is a rather flattish, red-striped, yellow apple with tender, firm, yellowish, very juicy flesh.  It has a flavor like fresh cider.  Itr is very good for cooking, baking, and eating.  It is a long-term keeping lasting into

Kogetsu is a Japanese selection that ripens with Gala.  The red medium-large fruit has a creamy white flesh with a nice sugar to acid balance.  It has excellent flavor.  It stores well, but shows some dropping tendencies as it ripen

Quinte is one of the earliest quality summer apples to eat.  The fruit is crisp, juicy and tasty with a red blush over a yellow skin.  It doesn't store well, but does harvest over a period and require several pickings.  The tree is

Caville Blanc was a favorite apple of Thomas Jefferson and France's Louis XIII.  It an excellent sauce, cooking and dessert apple with tender, sweet-spicy, yellowish-white flesh with a flavorful, banana-like aroma.  It is reported to hav

Galarina® is a new gala-like disease resistant apple that shows high tolerance to scab, mildew and fire blight.  It is hardier than Gala and resembles Gala in many respects.  The fruit is medium sized, orangish-red ov

Worcester Pearmain is a medium to large sized apple with dark red skin stippled with white dots over a yellow background color.  The flesh is creamy white, subacid with good eating quality.  It ripens unevenly   in early Septem

The original Jonagold is one of the finest eating and cooking apples to ripen in the fall.  The red fruit is unusually large, with juicy yellow-white flesh.  The flavor is very similar to Jonathan.  It will keep for several months,

Brown Thorn is a cider apple that produces a bitter-sweet cidre.  The trees is only moderately vigorous and is very susceptible to fire blight.  It ripens late in the season.  It is a late bloomer.

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Sweet Coppin is predominantly known for is good sweet cider characteristics, but it can also be eaten fresh.  Th emedium large apples are yellow, but somewhat soft fleshed.  They are low in tannin and acid content.  It makes a good

This cultivar of Gilliflower may be the same as Black Gilliflower, but our source attributes it to English origin.  We have'nt been able to compare it closely enough with Black Gilliflower to be sure.

Maiden Blush is a fine heirloom summer apple that produces regular crops of flattish round yellow apples with a beautiful crimson blush.  The skins are tough, smooth and waxy and the flesh is crisp, juicy and creamy yellow.  It is great

Red Summer Rambo is a "double red" strain of regular Summer Rambo.  It has all the same qualities.  The large fruit is red striped.  The flesh is very crisp, juicy, yellowish green, with a fine, rich, tart, aromatic flavor.  It

Chenango Strawberry is one of the most beautiful summer apples, with medium to large, conical, shiny, yellowish-whitish, smooth skinned apples.  The skin is almost translucent.  The fruit is firm, juicy and white, but tender and very aro

Grandpa's SummerGold (formerly known as just Grandpa's Gold) is one of the best early summer apples around. Slightly later picking than Lodi, which is closely resembles. The large fruit ripens early in August. The flesh is whi

Hardy Cumberland is a late season variety ripening in mid-October.  The fruit is medium large with a good crisp, sub-acid flavor.  The flesh is white.  It is a bright red blushed apple over a greenish yellow background.  The tr

Grandpa's Big Gala is a special selection of Gala that just grows larger than a normal Gala.  The fruit is similar in other respects.  Not highly colored, but an excellent eating and all purpose apple.  It is suspected to be a tri-p

Kandil Sinap produces oblong, creamy yellow fruit with smooth, porcelin like skin with a washed red blush.  The flesh is finely grained, crisp, juicy and has excellent flavor.      The tree is productive and a regular

Black Gilliflower produces large, dark red, almost black colored fruit.  It is large, long and conical in shape.  Its greenish-white flesh has a distinctive aroma and is rich, but with a mild sweet flavor.  It is prized for baking a

Tremlett's Bitter is a classic, bitter-sweet hard cider variety.  The medium sized fruit is firm and the juice is bittersweet.  Great for blending.  It blooms very early and requires another early pollinator.  Ripens over a two

Golden Russet of widely considered to be one of the best cider varieties because of its excellent flavored, sugary juice.  It also is good for drying, fresh eating and cooking.  The medium sized fruit has crisp, juicy, finely textured ye

Noel des Champs is a hard cidre variety with a bittersweet character.  The tree is hardy, vigorous, precocious and productive.  It is a late bloomer and ripens in late mid-season, September to October.  It appears to be quite diseas

Regent is a hardy, all purpose apple that resembles Red Delicious somewhat in flavor and shape, but it stands by itself.  The medium sized fruit is bright red over a yellow skin.  It has a pleasing texture and flavor, and is superior to

The Brits think Cox's is the best!  Cox's Orange Pippin is considered by many to be one of the best dessert apples.  It produces medium sized, conical, somewhat dull looking fruit with red stripes over a tough, smooth orangish skin. 

The original Empire is one of the best eating apples you will find. Only medium in size, it is a steady bearer on grower friendly trees. The red fruit has a McIntosh-Jonathan like look. The flavor is excellent with white flesh. The

Keepsake may not be the prettiest apple to look at, but it is a good one for the northern backyard because it is a heavy cropper of medium sized red apples that keep thru to Spring.  When picked the fruit is hard and very cris

Kingston Black is one of the few English Cidre apples that can be used for singel-variety cidre.  It has a good sugar content with a bitter sharp flavor class.  It has a distinctive flavor all its own.  The fruit is medium sized, ro

Brown Snout is a strictly cider variety that produces a bittersweet cider.  The fruit is smallish with greenish-yellow skin.  It oftens has a patch of russet at the blossom end that identifies it by its name.  Susceptible to fire bl

Twenty Ounce used to be one of the premier cooking apples for over a 100 years.  It is also a high quality dessert apple.  The fruit is very large--- greenish with attractive broad red stripes.  The flesh is fairly firm and white.&#

Old Nonpareil is a good cider apple with excellent flavor.  The apple is small and oblate, with greenish-yellow skin and an orangish blush.  Often it has some streaky russeting.  It ripens late in the season in October.

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Farmers who grew Spigold loved the apple, but it never made it commercially.  Spigold is an exceptionally high quality with firm, fine grained, crisp yellow flesh.  It stores very well.  It has a flavor that combines Northern Spy an

Ellis Bitter is an excellent hard cidre variety with a bittersweet character.  The medium sized yellow fruit ripen in September.  The tree is fairly vigous, precocious and productive.  It is a later bloomer.  It does not store

Querina® is a new scab and mildew resistant late ripening variety.  The fruit is firm, juicy and tasty.  It usually ripens into a solid red color.  It ripens 2-3 weeks after Golden Delicious in mid-late October.&

Grandpa's Choice™ Red Jonagold is one of the finest eating and cooking apples to ripen in the fall. The red fruit is unusually large, with juicy yellow-white flesh. The flavor is very similar to Jonathan. Red

Prairie Spy is an attractive Northern Spy-type apple.  It has large fruit that are red over a yellow background.  The fruit is very crisp, juicy, and have an excellent flavor.  It can be used for most purposes.  It stores well

Burgundy produces large, round, solid dark blackish-red fruit.  The skin is smooth and glossy and the red color may bleed into the flesh somewhat.  It is an excellent, crisp, sub-acid flavored apple.  The fruit hangs well up to thre

Crimson® Gold apple is a new disease resistant apple with excellent qualities.  The fruit is bright reddish-orange and medium sized.  The flesh is sweet-tart, white, crisp, and juicy.  It will store well.  I

Winesap is a favorite apple in the South where it is well known for it long keeping characteristics.  It is only a medium sized dark red fruit.  The flesh is very crisp, juicy, yellow with a spicy, wine-like flavor and aroma.  It ca

Irish Peach is an ancient apple that came from Ireland.  It has smallish, greenish fruit with faint red stripes.  The flesh is crisp,juicy, aromatic, and has a pleasant rich flavor.  Ripens in mid-summer.

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Frostbite(TM) was just recently named by the University of Minnesota.  Known as MN 447, it is an older cultivar that has been used as a parent in the breeding of other successful U of MN apple varieties.  Because of its u

Boskoop has been a well known and favorite old all purpose apple in England for years.  It has large, greenish-yellow fruit with red blush.  It is crisp and tangy and highly aromatic.  Great for dessert, cooking and baking.  It

State Fair is a very high quality late summer apple ripening in mid-late August.  The medium sized fruit is brilliantly striped orangish-red over a yellowish background color.  It has a creamy flesh that is juicy, sweet, firm and aromati

The origial Gala strain to come into the US is known as Kidd's D-8 now.  It produces medium sized fruit with striping on a golden yellow-orangish skin that is distinctive.  The fruit is crisp, dense, aromatic and white with an subacid, s

Winecrisp™ is one of the newest disease resistant apples.  As its name suggests, it is remeniscent of the old Winesap.  It has medium sized, deep red, non-glossy fruits that ripen a couple weeks after Red Delicious in mid-October.&

Late Strawberry is a small to medium sized apple splashed with various shades of yellow and red stripes.  The fruit is finely textured, crisp, juicy and creamy white.  It has aaan excellent, aromatic sub-acid flavor.  Ripens in late

Red Baron is a nice all purpose hardy apple for northern climes.  The medium to large fruit is cherry red blushed on creamy yellow background color.  It has a pleasant, acidic, tart flavor and is suitable for most uses.  It ripens a

Centennial Crab is a very hardy, edible crab that can beautify the yard also.  It is a compact grower that produces small, crisp, juicy edible crabs that are sweet and nutty flavored about 1.5 inches in diameter.  It ripens in mid-August

Grimes Golden is an excellent, medium sized bright golden yellow apple with fine, crisp, yellow flesh.  It has an aromatic, spicy flavor that is distinctive.  It is good for all uses except for baking.  An excellent keeper into the

Yellow Bellflower is a fine winter dessert apple.  It is lemon-yellow with white russety dots and a slight pink blush.  The fruit is usually large, elongated and sometimes lopsided.  It can bruise easily.  The creamy flesh is c

Winter Banana is one of the most beautiful apples in appearnace. It is a large apple with strickingly beautiful pale yellow, waxy skin usually blushed with a delicate rosy pink. Flesh is moderately firm, slightly coarse, crips, tan

Binet Rouge is a French variety that is used for sweet hard cider base.  The tree is very precocious and productive.  The tree is a week grower and matures in early mid-season in September.  It is mildew susceptible.  It is lat

Akane is an late summer/ early fall apple that resembles Jonathan. It is medium in size, bright red in color, and its white flesh has a distinctive aroma and sub-acid flavor. It is an excellent dessert apple.

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Tolman Sweet has always been a highly prized apple for baking, stewing and cider.  The fruit is medium large, round, with a pale yellow skin that may show some blushing and russeting.  Often there is a distinct suture line running from t

Golden Noble is one of the apples with the highest content of Vitamin C.  It is a large, round apple with bright yellow fruit sometimes spotted with red.  Creamy white flesh that cooks into a nice sauce.  The tree is somewhat of a t

Michelin is an old English cider variety that has been found to be great for cider blending.  It has a bittersweet flavor.  The fruits are medium sized, round and yellowish.  The tree is an upright, somewhat spurry grower.  It

Red Westfield Seek-No-Further is well suited for fresh eating and drying.  The dried apple has an intensified flavor over the fresh one.  The fruit is medium large with streaky red and russet over yellow.  It is crispy, juicy and ar

Connel Red is a red sport of Fireside.  It has large, round, solid red fruit with has a sweet, mild and aromatic flavor like Fireside.  It is great for eating and cooking.  It stores well into the spring maintaining its crisp juicy

Grandpa's Golden Rezista® is an attractive yellow-green apple. It is a high quality dessert apple, with a very unique lemony, spicy taste unlike any other. The fruit is finely textured and very juicy. The medium large size frui

Initial is a new disease resistant, earlier season apple that is scab resistant.  It is a large apple with lots of red blush over yellow background.  The fruit is crisp and mildly acid.  It matures about a week befor

JerseyMac apple is a very early McIntosh type apple that ripens in early summer in late July.  It is an attractive, medium sized apple with predominatly red skin over a light yellow background.  The flesh is whitish-yellow, crisp, juicy,

King David produces dark red fruit over a greenish background color.  The fruit is medium sized, firm, crisp, spicy, juicy, yellow fleshed and is very flavorful.  It is good for all uses from cider to sauce, pies, and eating.  It is

Morden 604 appears to be one of the hardier apricots for colder areas.  The fruit is large, with thick orange flesh and good flavor.  Suitable for most uses.  The tree is very hardy, vigorous, and spreading, ripening late in the sea

Rival apricot is an early-mid-season apricot with large, attractive light orange fruit with a red blush.  The flesh is firm, fine textured and deep orange with a mild, sub-acid flavor.  The tree is vigorous and productive and hardier tha

DR-606 is a very hardy apricot that ripens late in the season.  Reportedly good flavored.  It is self-fertile.

Curtis Apricot is a very attractive golden color with a red blush.  The fruit is medium sized and good eating.  It is freestone and ripens one to two weeks after Chinese, late in the season.

Apache is one of the newest and earliest apricots.  The fruit is average sized with a pinkish-orange skin.  The orange flesh is smooth and finely textured.  It is freestone.

Jerseycot is a newer introduction that ripens early in the season a couple weeks ahead of Goldcot.  It is freestone and disease resistant.  The fruit is medium, round, pale orange with no blush and has good quality and a distinctive cant

OrangeRed® Apricot ripens about a week before Harcot .  It has a beautiful reddish blush over a bright orange background.  The fruit is firm and of high quality.

Precious is a very hardy variety that is smallish, yellow orange and with softer flesh.  Good for cold marginal areas.  It ripens in mid-season and is self-fertile.

Wenatchee Moorpark is well known in Washington and Oregon for its ability to set crops in areas bothered by spring rain and frost.  It is self-fruitful and a good pollinator for Perfection, Tilton and others.  The fruit is large with yel

Afghanistan is a self-fertile, white fleshed apricot that has performed well in some colder, eastern climates.  It is medium sized and many describe it as one of the best flavored, sweetest apricots.  The fruit is very tender.

Perfection is a well known apricot in the west.  It produces large, light orange yellow fruit with no blush.  The flesh is bright orange, firm, and good quality and flavor.  It is freestone.  Ripens in mid-seaso

Benton™ is an excellent self-fertile dark sweet cherry that ripens in the Bing season.  The fruit has exceptional flavor that is both sweet and acidic.  Blooms later than Bing.

Alternate Name:  Columbia

   Grandpa's Choice™ Ranier Blush Sweet Cherry's skin color is golden yellow with a considerable amount of red blush. The fruit is very large and firm, and it's clear colored flesh has a distinctly different flavor. The tree is vig

Sweetheart™ is very precocious dark red sweet cherry that is self-fertile.  The fruit ripens very late.  Sweetheart can tend to over-produce, so pruning to reduce the crop may be necessary.  It is self-fertile.

Skeena™ is an excellent self-fertile dark sweet cherry that shows good tolerance to splitting from the rain.  It ripens a couple weeks after Bing.  The fruit is large, attractive and excellent eating.  Could be a good choice f

Van is one of the hardier sweet cherries, and will do better than Bing in the colder areas.  The fruit is Bing type, but slightly smaller.  Ripens a week or so after Bing.  It is a heavy producer and excellent pollinator for many ot

Evans Bali Tart cherry is one of the hardiest tart cherries to be found.  It is a naturally compact, dwarfish tree that will withstand the cold north winters and produce an abundance of tart pie cherries which are bright red.&

Todd is a very hardy european plum that ripens in early September in mid-season.  The fruit is large and deep blue and the flesh is yellow-orange.  Good for fresh eating or canning.  Self-fertile.

Grandpa's Choice ™ Stanley prune is a fine prune-type plum with excellent quality suited for fresh eating, canning, preserves and drying. Fruit is large in size, with dark blue skin and a greenish-yellow, fine grained flesh. The tree is earl

Northern Blue is a very hardy, self-fertile european plum similar to Mount Royal.  It ripens in mid-season in early September.  Self-fertile and precocious.

BlueFree plums were grown by Grandpa to help lengthen the plum season after Stanley.  BlueFre is a good quality purple plum, much larger than Stanley with excellent sweet flavor.  The tree is vigorous and extremely hardy.

LaCrescent has small tender yellow fruit with a slight red blush.  The flesh is yellow, freestone and melting. It was a sweet aromatic flavor with a hint of apricot.  Good for eating or jam.  Ripens early and needs other hybrid poll

Gracious has attractive yellow-orange, mottled fruit with yellow-orange flesh.  It is a semi-clingstone, with firm, sweet, pleasing flavor, good for all uses.  The tree is vigorous and hardy.  Later blooming and seems to pollinate w

Kaga is an excellent pollinator for other hybrid plums.  The fruit is purple-black and about an inch in diameter.  The flesh is meaty.  A dense, bush like tree.

Alderman is one of the nicest hybrid, hardy plums.  The fruit is large, dark-red skinned with amber flesh and firm.  It keeps well.  Ripens in mid-season.  Pollinates best with Superior, Toka, or Bubblegum Plum®.

Hanska plum is red skinned with a bluish bloom and yellow fleshed.  The fruit is semi-freestone, large and great for canning.  Ripens in late mid-season in September.

Flamin'Fury® PF 28-007 peach, like all of the "007" line has large size that is acquired without excessive thinning.  It is naturally large, with excellent color, firmness, and flavor.  It ripens later in the season,

Flamin'Fury® PF 15A ripens in Redhaven season.  It is very hardy and productive.  Excellent flavor, high red color, good firmness, and size.  It is freestone.  Shows good resistance to bacterial spot.

Flamin'Fury® PF 5B is one of the earliest peaches, being about 5 days after PF-1 and about three weeks before Redhaven.  It has good flavor, quality, and has decent medium size fruit.  Beautiful red fruit that tastes

Golden Jubilee is an old variety that once was very popular for home use, canning, freezing, and preserves.  The flesh is fine grained, tender and juicy.  The size is mdium to large.  The fruit is freestone with sof,

Flamin'Fury® Fat Lady™ is one of the latest peaches we offer.  It is large, with great sweet flavor and excellent color.  It holds well in storage and refrigeration.  It ripens 40 days after Redhaven when t

Redgold is one of the most well known of the nectarines.  It is a large, glossy, highly colored fruit with firm and juicy freestone flesh.  It stores and keeps well.  Ripens later in the season a couple weeks before

Georgia Belle is also known as Belle of Georgia.  It is an old-time favorite with large, white fruit with a reddish blush.  The flesh is white and creamy with tinges of red.  Although firm, it bruises easily.  I

Flamin'Fury® PF 9A-007 peach is a great peach that ripens in Redhaven season.  It is larger and requires less thinning than Redhaven to get size.  A good all around peach than rivals Redhaven.

Flamin'Fury® PF 17 is one of the best peaches in the Loring season.  It produces large fruit and very large yeilds.  It is firm, with high quality freestone fruit.  Ripens about 12 days after Redhaven.

Flamin'Fury® PF 24C-Cold Hardy Peach is touted by its breeder as being one of the most cold hardy and frost resistant peaches he has ever seen. It has attractive large, red fruit that have excellent flavor and quality.  We

PF11 peaches ripens 2 days before Redhaven and produces beautiful, uniform freestone peaches and are certainly the ideal replacement for Redhaven. The fruit is large.

Flamin'Fury® PF-25 peach is one of Paul Friday's earlier introductions, but it has all the qualities the Flamin'Fury® peaches are known for--- great size, color, firmness, and productivity.  It  is reported to be

Halehaven was well known as an excellent canning and freezing peach in its day.  The fruit is large and orangish yellow with a deep crimson blush.  It has a tough skin and the flesh is sweet, juicy, frm and tender. 

Contender is known as one of the more hardy peaches because of its later blooming dates and hardy, more frost resistant buds.  Most report it to be hardy enough for Zone 4.   Contender ripens clode to Canadian Harmon

Ruby Queen has outstanding flavor.  It has reddish-black skin and firm red flesh.  It has shown good disease resistance and is well suited for humid conditions.  Ripens in early September, about 3-4 weeks after Santa Rosa.  Req

Vanier Japanese plum is a nice bright red plum with high quality, orangish-yellow flesh.  It is semi-clingstone and only medium sized.  It ripens in mid-summer with Wickson and Satsuma.

The Bubblegum Plum(R) is known for it's unique flavor when properly ripe.  When Grandpa first tried it, it took him back to the good old days when he was a youngster and chewed plain old bubble gum!  That's the

Myrobalan 29C (Prunus cerasifera)--- An improved selection of the most common seedling rootstock used for plums, prunes, and sometimes peaches. Vigorous and not considered a dwarfing rootstock. Resistant to armillaria root rot (oak

Shenandoah is a fire blight resistant European pear that ripens in mid-late September, about a month after Bartlett.  It is a large pear that has a Bartlett like shape.  The fuit has greenish-yellow skin speckled with dot

Blake's Pride is a fire blight resistant pear that ripens about a week after Bartlett.  The fruit is medium sized.  Its yellow fruit is aromatic and excellent.

Parker Pear is very hardy and ripens in early September in mid-season.  The fruit is medium-large, yellow-bronze with some red blush.  The flesh is fine grained, tender, sweet and juicy and the visible grit cells soften with maturity.

Sunrise is a fire blight resistant early season pear that ripens a couple weeks before Bartlett, close to Clapp's Favorite time.  It has a yellow skin with a slight pink blush and little russetting.  The fruit has a sweet

Niitaka Asian Pear is heavily russeted with an orange brown color.  It has excellent size.  The fruit is juicy and sweet, and has more texture than most other asian pears.  It will keep in storage for up to four months.  The tr

Atago is a large, golden russetted Asian pear ripening in mid-September.  It is very firm, crisp, and juicy.

Kosui is a medium-large Asian pear that ripens in late August, just after Hosui.  The fruit is covered with a yellowish-bronze russet and is crisp, sweet, juicy and low-acid.

Yoinashi™ is an excellent, large Asian pear that ripens in Mid-September.  The fruit is orangish-brown with a russety finish.  It has an excellent crisp, rich, aromatic flavor.

Shinsui is one of the earliest ripening Asian pears, ripening before Shinseiki in mid-August.  The fruit is medium sized, globular to oblate, with smooth yellow skin covered in an orange-brown russet.  The fruit is crisp

An Illustrated Fruit Growing Guide

One of Grandpa's nurseryman friends wrote this book, which is an excellent starter book for the Backyard Fruit Grower. Easy to read and well organized. Covers everything f

Maggot Barriers are a new product Grandpa has learned about that he thinks is perfect for the backyard fruit grower. A 300 count ziplock bag should provide about enough barriers for a common semi-dwarf tree if the fruit is properly

Grandpa now ships FREE tree wraps with each tree ordered, since he thinks these are so important to protect your young trees from "critter damage". So, you do not need to order these unless you need extras for other trees.<